Instructors

John Biguenet is the widely acclaimed author of The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories and Oyster, a novel, as well as seven other books, including The Rising Water Trilogy and Silence. His work has appeared in such magazines as The Atlantic, Granta, Esquire, Image, Mr Porter, The New Republic, North American Review, Playboy, Story, Tin House, and Zoetrope, as well as in many anthologies. His award-winning plays include The Vulgar Soul, Rising Water, Shotgun, Mold, and Night Train, which was developed at the National Theatre in London. Broomstick, his new play written entirely in heroic couplets, will have its sixth production this year. An O. Henry Award winner for his short fiction and a New York Times guest columnist, he is the Robert Hunter Distinguished University Professor at Loyola University in New Orleans. @JohnBiguenet

Rolf Potts' essays and reportage have appeared in such venues as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic Traveler, Sports Illustrated, the Travel Channel, and National Public Radio, as well as over 20 nonfiction anthologies, including the Best American Travel Writing series and the Best Creative Nonfiction series. He has won five Lowell Thomas Awards for his travel writing, and his first book, Vagabonding, has been translated into seven languages. His second book, Marco Polo Didn't Go There, was the first American-authored travel book to win Italy's prestigious Bruce Chatwin Award. Potts has taught nonfiction writing at Yale University, and he has served as the Paris American Academy writing workshop program director since 2005. @rolfpotts

Robin Wasserman is the author of the novel Girls on Fire (May 2016), as well as more than ten books for young adults, one of which was adapted into a television mini-series. She is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller whose books have appeared on the Kirkus, Booklist, and Locus best of year lists and been translated into nine languages worldwide. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Tin House, The New York Times and TheAtlantic.com, and her short stories have been published in several anthologies, including Press Start to Playand Robot Uprisings. A former editor and recent MacDowell Colony fellow, she teaches on the faculty of the Southern New Hampshire University low-residency MFA program. @robinwasserman

Fellows

Program Fellows are veteran PAA students and active writers who've been selected to come back to Paris and help administrate many of the social and peer-advisement aspects of the summer writing program. The Program Fellow for 2017 is Lauren Klein of Mill Valley, California. Amanda Bestor-Siegal of Paris will serve as the 2017 Senior Writing Fellow.

PAA Fellows are returning students who are selected on a competitive basis to take part in independent study projects and peer leadership activities at the Paris Writing Workshop. All former students are welcome to apply to this program. PAA Fellows for 2017 will be in announced in early February.